No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.

Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.

[Librarians] study their field with as much determination and as much delight as open-heart surgeons.

We can be better, we can be wiser, we can be more kind. Yes we have to change. We have to grow up and stop acting like 10 years old. Yes there is much to do, much to see, much to go into.

Whining lets the brute know there's a victim for him in the neighborhood!

When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.